Planet Local Voices II with Debal Deb

Local Futures Podcast · Nov 5, 2026 · 43m

Debal Deb is scientist, biodiversity conservationist and ecologist committed to working with traditional farmers in Eastern India to conserve indigenous seed diversity from extinction. Through his folk rice seed bank ‘Vrihi’ and his agroecological farm and research center ‘Basudha’ in Eastern India, he has helped save more than 1,480 indigenous rice varieties (along with many varieties of other crop and non-crop species) and disseminate these seeds and the traditional ecological knowledge with which they are intimately linked back to the communities from which many of them originated.

In this…